vimrc

" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible

" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set backspace=indent,eol,start

set background=dark
set title		" set xterm title
set history=1000	" keep 1000 lines of command line history
set ruler		" show the cursor position all the time
set showcmd		" display incomplete commands
set incsearch		" do incremental searching
set hidden		" let buffers to to background without saving
set wildmenu		" for <tab> autocompletion
set wildmode=list:longest,full
set scrolloff=3		" give a little room around the cursor when scrolling

" cleaner backup stuff
set backupdir=~/.vim-tmp,~/.tmp,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp
set directory=~/.vim-tmp,~/.tmp,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp
set backup		" keep a backup file

" case-smart searching
set ignorecase 
set smartcase

" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
map Q gq

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  syntax on
  set hlsearch
endif

let python_highlight_all = 1

" let % jump between more than just open and close brackets
runtime macros/matchit.vim


" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands.
if has("autocmd")

  " Enable file type detection.
  " Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72,
  " 'cindent' is on in C files, etc.
  " Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting.
  filetype plugin indent on

  " Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily.
  augroup vimrcEx
  au!

  " For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters.
  autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78

  autocmd FileType python set tabstop=4|set shiftwidth=4|set expandtab|set softtabstop=4|set smarttab
  autocmd FileType ruby set tabstop=2|set shiftwidth=2|set noexpandtab

  " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
  " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
  " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
  autocmd BufReadPost *
    \ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
    \   exe "normal! g`\"" |
    \ endif

  augroup END

else

  set autoindent		" always set autoindenting on

endif " has("autocmd")

" Convenient command to see the difference between the current buffer and the
" file it was loaded from, thus the changes you made.
command DiffOrig vert new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis
	 	\ | wincmd p | diffthis

function Ri() 
	let b:x = system("ri '" . input("ri: ") . "' > /tmp/ri_output") 
	sp /tmp/ri_output 
endfunction 
map <F2> :call Ri()<CR>